Nationalism, Marxism and Western Popular Culture in Yugoslavia: Ideologies, Genuine and Spurious
Author(s)
Simic, Andrei
Abstract
In the following discussion, a model analogous to Sapir’s will be proposed in respect to nationalism, Marxism, and Western popular culture, ideologies which have profoundly influenced the recent history of former Yugoslavia. In this respect, a comparison can be drawn between what can be described as contrived, self-consciously held, or deliberately propagated ideologies (spurious or artificial ideologies) on the one hand, and those which are discerned by ordinary people to be part of the “natural” or “God-given” order (genuine or natural ideologies).